Graduated with honors (1981) from the S. P. Korolyov Kuibyshev Aviation Institute, presently, Samara National Research University (Samara University), majoring in Applied Mathematics.
He received his Candidate in Physics & Maths (1988) and Doctor in Physics & Maths (1996) degrees from Samara University.
He is the director of the of Image Processing Systems Institute of the RAS - Branch of the Federal Scientific-Research Centre "Crystallography and Photonics" of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IPSI RAS), holding a part-time position of professor at Samara University’s Technical Cybernetics sub-department.
He is the manager of the Research & Education Center of Computer Optics established jointly by Samara University and IPSI RAS, holding the chair of Samara University’s base sub-department of High-Performance Computing at IPSI RAS.
He is a OSA, SPIE and IAPR member. He is co-author of 240 scientific papers, 14 monographs, and 57 inventions and patents.
His current research interests include diffractive optics, mathematical modeling, image processing, computer vision and nanophotonics.
